4.  The applicant was born in 1959 and currently resides in Kirovograd.
5.  In January 2001 the applicant, a former military serviceman brought proceedings against A-0981 military unit, where he had served before retirement, seeking recovery of redundancy pay and compensation for his uniform. On 12 February 2001 the Military Court of Cherkassy Garrison (Військовий суд Черкаського гарнізону) found for the applicant and awarded him a total of 2,935 Ukrainian hryvnias (UAH)[1].
6.  On 20 March 2001 the military unit concerned paid the applicant UAH 2,420[2].
7.  On 17 May 2001 the Bailiffs’ Service of the Leninskiy District of Kirovograd (Відділ державної виконавчої служби Ленінського районного управління юстиції м. Кіровограда, hereafter “the Leninskiy Bailiffs’ Service”) instituted enforcement proceedings in respect of UAH 515[3], the outstanding amount of the court award.
8.  Although the property and accounts of the military unit were frozen by the Leninskiy Bailiffs’ Service the funds obtained were insufficient for the payment of the amount due to the applicant.
9.  On 26 March 2003 the Leninskiy Bailiffs’ Service forwarded the applicant’s writ of execution together with the enforcement case-file to the Bailiffs’ Service of the Oleksandrivskiy district of Kirovograd region (Відділ державної виконавчої служби Олександрівського районного управління юстиції Кіровоградської області, hereafter “the Oleksandrivskiy Bailiffs’ Service”).
10.  According to a bank transfer order produced by the Government, on 30 November 2004 the Oleksandrivskiy Bailiffs’ Service sent UAH 2,073[4] via postal transfer to an unspecified recipient or recipients. This sum corresponds to the total amount of the remaining debts owed to the applicant and Mr Mayadnnyk, the applicant in case no. 20826/02.
11.  On 1 December 2004 the Oleksandrivskiy Bailiffs’ Service terminated the proceedings in the applicant’s enforcement case on the grounds that the judgment of 12 February 2001 had been executed in full. The applicant stated that he had not been informed of the transfer and had not received any money as a result of it.
12.  On 21 June 2007 the Oleksandrivskiy Bailiffs’ Service made a postal transfer in the applicant’s name of the remaining amount. On the same day the applicant collected this money.
13.  On 4 March 2003 the applicant brought proceedings against the Leninskiy Bailiffs’ Service claiming moral damages for its alleged inactivity and compensation for the devaluation of the sum awarded to him. On 28 July 2003 the Leninsky District Court of Kirovograd (Ленінський районний суд м. Кіровоград, hereafter “the Leninskiy Court”) granted this claim in part and awarded the applicant UAH 1,000[5] in compensation for non-pecuniary damage incurred as the result of the Leninskiy Bailiffs’ Service’s failure to perform in time its duties set forth in the Law of 21 April 1999 “on Enforcement Proceedings”.
14.  On 30 October 2003 the Leninskiy Court granted the Leninskiy Bailiffs’ Service leave to appeal out of time against this judgment. On 13 November 2003 the Leninskiy Bailiffs’ Service filed an appeal. Having sought and received the applicant’s written comments on this appeal, on an unspecified date the Leninskiy Court referred it to the Kirovograd Regional Court of Appeal (Апеляційний суд Кіровоградської області).
15.  On 9 February 2004 the Leninskiy Bailiffs’ Service opened the enforcement proceedings in respect of the judgment of 28 July 2003 and immediately terminated them on the ground that appeal proceedings were under way in respect of the judgment concerned. Despite several requests of the Court, neither the applicant nor the Government furnished any information on the course or the outcome of these proceedings.